United Nations say at least 100 children were killed or injured every day in Gauze Because the strikes continued on March 18, even while the United States emphasized the constant support of Israel.
“Nothing justifies the murder of children,” Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN -LAF agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), announced on Saturday on X.
He said Israel converted a besieged territory into “landless” for children, and complained that “young lives” were “” interrupted in the war, not children’s creation. “
“This is a stain of our common humanity,” Lazzarini said.
“Harrowing.
At least 100 children are reported killed or injured every day in #GauzeSince the strikes continued (March 18) according to @Unicef
Young lives interrupted in the war, not children’s workmanship.
Ever since the war began 1.5 years ago, there have been 15,000 children … pic.twitter.com/lidpx0lyn7
– UNRWA (@UNRWA) April 4, 2025
UNICEF said at least 322 children were killed since Israel renewed his offensive on March 18, breaking a two -month shudder the income that came into force January 19th.
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said on Monday that the truce “provided a desperately needed life for the gaza children and hoped for recovery.”
“But the children are again diverted to the cycle of deadly violence and lack,” she said.
‘Every number that represents life’
Marking Palestinian Children’s Day, noticed annually on April 5, the Palestinian Ministry of Education on Saturday said that children were among Most targeted victims Israeli aggression, with more than 17,000 killed in Gaza since October 2023.
“The character reflects the depth of the tragedy that children last, with every number of life, memories and experience lost,” the Ministry said.
The Palestinian group Hamas also condemned what she said was that of Israel “is a” intentional murder, custody and torture of children, as well as withholding their basic human rights. “
Warned that Israeli “impunity stimulates the further escalation of the crime against Palestinian children”
“About 1,100 children, the Israeli army detained from October 7, 2023, and about 39,000 others lost one or both parents for violence,” Hamas said in a statement.
The Israeli occupation “continues to target children through systematic crimes, including their use as human shields, denial of education and attempting to break their national identity in occupied territories in 1948 through manipulation of teaching programs, crime expansion and value destruction,” he added.
The data published in a joint statement by the Palestinian Commission for Prisoners, Palestinian Prisoners and Associations for Support and Prisoner Association for Adding and Human Rights said on Saturday that Israel had detained 1,200 Palestinian children from the occupied West Coast from October 7, 2023.
The statement states that the detainees of the child are subjected to “torture, starvation, medical neglect and systematic lack of daily”.
These conditions recently resulted in the death of the first prisoner of the child since the beginning of the war in Gaza, 17-year-old Walid Ahmada from Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, who was killed in Megiddo prison in northern Israel.
More than 9,500 Palestinians, including women and over 350 children, are currently being held in Israeli prisons under severe conditions, according to Palestinian and Israeli reports on human rights.
In the meantime, UNRWA said that more than 142,000 Palestinians were displaced between March 18 and March 23 and warned of another humanitarian disaster in Gaza after the downfall of the ceasefire.
“Ever since the war in Gaza began, about 1.9 million people – including thousands of children – has gone through a repeated displacement in the midst of bombing, fear and loss,” the UNRWA statement issued on Palestine Day.
Israel has killed more than 50,600 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023, most of whom are women and children.
The International Criminal Court issued orders for the arrest of last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel also faces a case of genocide at the International Court of Justice for its enclave war.
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